Roughly one in every 10 students contracted COVID-19, according to the university's data dashboard. More than half of the nearly 5,300 infections came in the month of September, including one student who was hospitalized.
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UW-Madison philosophy professor Harry Brighouse led a discussion with students physically distanced from each other on the last day of summer before UW-Madison classes began. It was part of a test he conducted to see how well face-to-face classes work in the COVID-19 era.
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The first story I wrote this year was about a two-legged dog. 2020 only got more weird from there.
In early March, I sat in a room with about a hundred others listening to UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank brief professors on how the coronavirus might affect campus operations. During the Faculty Senate meeting, she encouraged instructors to consider what classes or meetings could be delivered online.
The annual Match Day tradition, where students stand on stage to learn where they will do their residencies, was scuttled because of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
Thousands of students moved into UW-Madison's dorms with a mixed set of emotions about the semester ahead — excitement, hope, doubt, fear — and I tried to capture it all in this story.
UW-Madison's return to the physical classroom stokes fear among some who say the safest option is to continue online and relief from others whose experience teaching or learning remotely was underwhelming.
Roughly one in every 10 students contracted COVID-19, according to the university's data dashboard. More than half of the nearly 5,300 infections came in the month of September, including one student who was hospitalized.
UW-Madison philosophy professor Harry Brighouse led a discussion with students physically distanced from each other on the last day of summer before UW-Madison classes began. It was part of a test he conducted to see how well face-to-face classes work in the COVID-19 era.
